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| Education |
| 1975 |
MFA, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture,
New Haven, Conn. |
| 1973 |
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
| Teaching experience |
| Presently |
Tenured professor, Printmaking/Painting Kansas City
Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri (since 1976) |
| 1998 |
Education consultant, Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
Educational Facilitator, Kansas City school for the Blind, Kaw Valley
Center, Paseo Academy for The Performing and Visual Arts, Sumner
Academy of Art and Science, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1997-98 |
Faculty, Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri
State University, Springfield |
| 1974-75 |
Lecturer of Art, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
|
| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2001 |
Weber State University Ogden Utah Small Paintings,
Invitational
Boston Printmakers 2000: Print Competition
Midlands Invitational 2000: Joslyn Museum, Omaha Neb.
American Print Alliance: On Off Or Over the Edge 2001
Bradley International 2000, works on paper Bradley University Peoria
IL. |
| 2000 |
Fast and Fugitive, print installation Goddard
Gallery, Sedalia Mo.
Is, mix media paintings Leedy Voulkos
Gallery Kansas City Mo.
Midlands Invitational 2000, Joslyn
Art Museum Omaha, NE.
Facts of Fictions Prints by Hugh Merrill,
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Florida |
| 1999 |
Blue Print Portraits, Buena Vista University,
Iowa
Fast and Fugitive, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia
|
| 1998 |
Martin Buber's Cat, solo exhibition of mixed
media and collage works, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Prints III, an Invitational of American Artists, Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana |
| 1997 |
Vitreographs from Harvey Littleton Studio, Portland
Art Museum, and Hickory Museum, North Carolina (group)
Shadow
Plays, collaborative theater and dance work, Missouri Fine Arts
Academy, Springfield
Facts of Fictions, sequential prints,
Western Sydney University, Australia (solo) |
| 1996 |
Facts of Fictions, Printworks Gallery, Chicago
(solo) |
| 1995 |
Nova Huta Rising, mobile, City Hall, Edmonton,
Alberta Canada (solo)
Art form Academe', Central Exchange,
Kansas City, Mo. (invitational)
Print Masters, University
of Tennessee, Knoxville (group)
Transparent Motives, New
Orleans Museum of Art (group)
25th Invitational Print and Drawing, Bradley University, Peoria Ill.,
(competition)
National Print Exhibition, University of
Hawaii, Hilo, (invitational)
La Jeune Gravure Contemporaire,
25 American Print Artist, Paris (invitational)
Printmaking
1995, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff |
| 1994 |
Life Cycles installation, Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum, Calif. (invitational)
Installation, Indianapolis Art League
Installation, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacgadoces, Texas |
| 1993 |
Big Print, University of Dallas, Irvine, Texas
(invitational)
Print mural, Edmonton Arts Festival, University
of Alberta, Canada (invitational)
Palace of Fine Arts,
Krakow, Poland (invitational)
Rosa Luxemberg Suite, Navy
Pier Exhibition, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, (solo)
Ink Visions,
Evanston Art Center, Ill. (invitational)
Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Penn. (invitational)
Critical
Impressions, Contemporary Print Arts and the Engagements of the Socio/Political,
Florida State University (traveling group exhibition)
Pulling
Together, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Baltimore (invitational)
Los Angeles Print Society National Competition
Facts of Fictions,
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Washington (solo) |
| 1992 |
Rosa Luxemburg Suite, Art Expo 1992, Lakeside
Gallery, Chicago
Dada Invitational, Alpha Gallery, Denver
(2-person exhibit)
60 Square Inches, Purdue University,
Indiana (juried)
Twelfth National University of Dallas Print
Invitational, Dallas |
| 1991 |
Wallenberg Suite, Printworks Gallery, Chicago
(solo)
Fellowship, Hugh Merrill and Steve Murakishi, Leedy-Voulkos
Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Cranbrook Collects,
New Acquisitions, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
(group)
Art Expo 1991, Lakeside Gallery, Chicago |
| 1990 |
Wallenberg Suite, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
(solo)
Los Angeles Print Society 1990, Los Angeles (national competition) |
| 1989 |
Art from Academe', Central Exchange, Kansas City,
Mo. (competition)
Dead Serious, Davenport Museum of Art,
Iowa (solo installation) |
| 1988 |
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins
Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (group)
Prints and Hidden Drawings,
Printworks Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Art Across America: Artists
and Their Students (traveling invitational)
Works from
Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (group)
|
| 1987 |
Hugh Merrill New Works, Leedy Voulkos Gallery,
Kansas City, Missouri. (Invitational)
Hugh Merrill Drawings
and Prints, Smith College, North Hampton, Mass. (solo) |
| 1986 |
Missouri Printmakers/Educators, Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri (invitational)
Hugh Merrill Prints,
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo. (solo)
Prints,
Pratt Graphics Arts Center, Katonah, New York (invitational) Kansas
City Artists, Nippon House, New York, New York (invitational) |
| 1984 |
Hugh Merrill, Prints, Nelson-Atkins Museum,
Kansas City, Mo. (solo) |
| 1982 |
Works on Paper, Mid-America Arts Council traveling
exhibition (invitational)
Prints Published by Squadron Press,
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (group) |
| 1981 |
Multiples, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City,
Mo. (invitational)
Hugh Merrill, Drawings, Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri (solo)
|
| 1980 |
Hugh Merrill, Drawings and Prints, Kemper Gallery,
Kansas City, Missouri (solo)
Pages Plus, Nelson-Atkins
Museum, Kansas City, Mo. (invitational)
Philadelphia Print Club (traveling invitational exhibition) |
| Community Art Projects |
| 2000 |
Portrait of Self, Collaboration with La Strada
Del' Arte Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Paseo High School Kansas City
Art Institute
Portrait of Self, Millennium Voices Holly
Wood Art and Cultural Center, Hollywood, Florida |
| 1999 |
Archiving Regional Communities, through a Kansas
State Art Commission Grant, Accessible Arts Inc. and in collaboration
with artist Bruce McIntosh we are using archiving to create community
and public art works in rural towns in western Kansas.
Fugitive
Portraits, Australia, Western Sydney University. Using correspondence,
email and a question-and-answer process I will create por-traits of
four citizens of Sydney. The graphic blueprint portraits exhib-ited
in the university gallery will fade and deteriorate over the time
of the exhibition, and like the events of the participants lives,
will disappear.
Art and Trouble: Art and Community, panel
discussion, presenting paper Community Art as Criterion, College Art
Association confer-ence, Los Angeles, California |
| 1998 |
APT: Archiving Prospecting Territory, Through
Accessible Arts Inc., Kansas School for the Blind, Missouri Juvenile
Justice System, and collaborating with artist Bruce McIntosh, implemented
APT with in-carcerated youths, abused children and blind students. |
| 1997-98 |
Our City/Ourselves, Portrait of a Community,
As a visiting artist, worked in collaboration with Christian Boltanski
and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design to conceptualize
and im-plement this city wide archiving project. |
| 1997 |
Shadow Plays, shadow puppet theater and dance performance;
Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
|
| 1996-98 |
Portrait of Self, community archiving art work,
As a visiting artist to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and
Design, I conceived and implemented a project in which inner city
youths-at-risk created visual archives over a year. The archives were
shown as a commu-nity/conceptual artwork at the museum. |
| 1985-98 |
High school collaborative print exchange portfolios,
Sumner Academy, Kansas City Kan.; Spring High School, Spring, Texas
|
| 1995 |
Vital Passages, Art and Death, Works Festival,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nova Huta Rising, mobile, Works
Festival, City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Collections |
| |
Albrecht-Kemper Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri
Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa
Experimental First National Bank of Boston
Franklin Furnace, New York City
Hallmark, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
Harvard Museums, Boston Mass.
International Business Machines
McNay Fine Arts Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minn.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Neb.
Silvermine Artist's Guild, Silvermine, Conn.
Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Missouri
Squadron Press, Kansas City, Missouri
Texaco, New York City
University of Dallas, Texas
University of Mississippi
Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Yale Museum of Fine Arts, New Haven, Conn.
Yellow Freight, Kansas City, Missouri |
| Professional Experience |
| 2000 |
Paper presentation New Media Southern Graphics Council
Conference University of Miami
President of the Kansas City Jewish Museum Foundation
Juror Clemson International print and drawing exhibit |
| 1999 |
Paper presentation, Community Art as Criterion,
College Art Association conference, Los Angeles, California
Vice President Programming, The Museum Without Walls of the Kansas
City Jewish Museum Federation |
| 1998 |
Juvenile Justice System Grant for Portrait of Self,
Accessible Arts Faculty, Missouri Fine Arts Academy
Faculty, Penland School, Penland, North Carolina
Visiting artist, Harvey Littleton Studio, North Carolina
Program Director, The Museum Without Walls of the Kansas City Jewish
Museum Federation
Educational Consultant, Christian Boltanski exhibition, Kemper Museum
of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Mo.
Visiting artist, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas
City, Missouri
Drawing In a Post Modern World panel participant,
Southern Graphics Council Conference, Athens Ohio
Printmakers
Forum: Current Trends, panel moderator, Nelson Atkins Museum,
Kansas City Missouri |
| 1997 |
Panel, 25th Southern Graphics Conference, Tampa Florida
|
| 1996 |
Paper Presentation, "Infinite Image, Education in an
Expanded Field," Southern Graphics Conference, University of West
Virginia
Juror, 1996 Pacific States National Print Exhibition, Hilo Hawaii
|
| 1995 |
Creativity workshop, Association of Visual Artists,
Chattanooga Tenn.
Master Artist Educator Award and Workshop, Kansas State University,
Manhattan Kan.
Juror, 25th Bradley International Print and Drawing Competition, Bradley
University, Peoria Ill.
Curator, Vital Passages, Art and Death, Works Festival Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
Panelist, "Vital Passages," Works Festival, Edmonton Alberta Canada
Benzinger Wine Label design, Sonoma County, California |
| 1994 |
Panelist, "Why Alternatives," Alternatives print symposium,
University of South Dakota, Vermilion
Judge, Scholastic Art Awards, High School Kansas City, Missouri
Panelist, "Big Print," Mid-America College Art Association Conference,
St. Louis
Respondent to Dr. Edwin Friedman, "Maus; A World Gone Mad," University
of Missouri, Kansas City/Museum Without Walls, Kansas City, Missouri
High School Workshops, Sumner Academy, Kansas City Kan.
Curator, Kristlenacht, Prints by Erwin Eisch, Community Christian
Church, Kansas City, Missouri
Dialogue/Performance, Rosa Luxemberg/Frida Kahlo, with Donna
Blue Lachman, Museum Without Walls, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1993 |
Panelist, Southern Graphics Council Conference, "Empowerment" |
| 1992-94 |
President, Southern Graphics Council Panelist, Southern
Graphics Council Conference, "Educating the Next Generation of Print
Artists"
Panelist, College Art Alliance conference, Chicago, presented paper:
"Staking Claim, Print and Post modernism" |
| 1991 |
Co-chair, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Kansas
City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Presenter, panel discussion, "Post Print," Southern Graphics Council
Conference, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 1990 |
Published edition, Wycross Press, Auburn, Alabama |
| 1989 |
Moderator, Panel discussion, Artist as Noise Maker,
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Published edition, Luminous Editions, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
|
| 1986-92 |
Art Partners, High School Workshops, Kansas City, Missouri
|
| 1985 |
Commissioned to produce edition for the Nelson-Atkins
Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Co-curator, Kansas City Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, Karl
Oskar Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1984 |
Co-curator, Lester Johnson Exhibition, Kemper
Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1981 |
Hand Hollow Fellowship, Yaddo Society, New York |
| 1980-82 |
Advisory committee member, Print Society, Nelson-Atkins
Museum, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1978-83 |
Helped found Squadron Press in Kansas City, a fine
arts printing press. The press produced prints for a variety of artists
across the country. The press put together seven exhibitions of its
published works in-cluding one at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas
City and an exhibit sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance. |
| Published Articles, Catalogues, Books |
| 1999 |
Community Art, Review Magazine No. 3 Kansas
City, Missouri |
| 1997 |
Portrait of Self workbook, published by the Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1996 |
Infinite Image, Contemporary Impressions Vol.
4 #2
"Charting the Dialogue, Printmaking in America," Printmaking
Today, London England
"Is there life after Art School?" Printmaking
Today, London England |
| 1995 |
"Educating the Next Generation of Printmakers," Printmaking
Today, London, England Vital Passages Curatorial Statement, 10th
Annual Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 1994 |
"Memory," Koffee Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
"Observation, Memory and Delay," 25th Bradley International Catalogue
Curators Statement
Pacific States International Curators Catalogue Statement, Hawaii
"Educating the Next Generation of Printmakers" Newsprint,
Artists Proof, Southern Graphics Council Conference newsletters
|
| 1993 |
Post Print, Staking Claim: Contemporary Impressions
Vol. 1 #1 |
| 1992 |
"Post Print," Journal of the Print World
"Staking Claim," Mid-American Print Council Journal, Fall 1992
"The Need and Function of Craft Organizations in an Interdisciplinary
Environment," Journal Of The Print World, Spring 1992 |
| 1990 |
"The Future of Print," Print Consortium Artist Proof,
1990 |
| Reviews, Articles, Books |
| 1998 |
Art Papers; Hugh Merrill: Martin Buber's Cat,
Dennis Raverty, Summer 1998
Auschwitz Sky photo essay,
New Letters Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 4, New Inferno Poems from Hell
New American Painting No. 17 Open Studio Press, Martin Buber's
Cat
An Artist finds the nearer to death, the closer to art,
Elizabeth Kirsch Kansas city Star Friday Feb. 20 1998
Best In Printmaking An International Collection, Lynn Allen, Phyllis
McGibbons
"Hugh Merrill Prints Politics and Perception,"
Jama Akers Kansas City Home Design magazine, March 1998 |
| 1996 |
"Creativity As Content," Jim Leedy," Printmaking
Today, vol. 5 no. 4 |
| 1994 |
25th Bradley International Journal of The Print
World, Summer "Vitreography," Emily Gaul, American Artist ,Sept.
1994
"Coming to Terms with 'Time'," Michael Farling, Santa Barbara News-Press,
Jan. 21 1994
"On View Indianapolis," Leah Stoddard, New Art Examiner Nov. 1994
|
| 1993 |
"Post Print/Staking Claim," American Print Alliance
Journal
"Critical Impressions Is Impressive," Mark Hinson, Tallahassee
Democrat, Jan. 15 ,1993
"A life etched in history," Alice Thorson,
Kansas City Star |
| 1992 |
"These aren't regular books, Bookworks, Nelson Atkins
Museum," Liz Seaton, Kansas City Star, April 29 1992
"Introductions
1992," Stanley Cuba, Denver Post Icon, Feb. 1992
The Density Quotient Pat Leddy Art Week, San Jose California, Feb.
18 vol. 24, no. 4
"Art, The Artist and Politics," Michael Pronko,
Forum magazine Kansas City Artist Coalition Feb. vol. 17 no. |
| 1991 |
"Gallery Scene, The Wallenberg Suite," David McCracken
Chicago Tribune, Feb. 1. 1991
"Wallenberg Story Inspires Artist
to Produce Print Series," Rick Hellman, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle,
Mar. 15, 1991
"Announcing The Wycross Press," Tom Dewey, Journal
of The Print World, Vol. 14 No. 2, Spring 1991
"Printmaker Pursues
Metamorphosis of Ideas," Laura Caruso, Kansas City Star, Mar. 31 1991
|
| 1989 |
"Printmaking Artist Teaches in Q-C," Linda Cook, Quad-City
Times, July 24 1989 |
| 1985 |
"Urban spaces," Donald Hoffman, Kansas City Star 1985
|
| 1984 |
"Hugh Merrill, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art," New
Art Examiner, Dec. 1984 |
| Visiting Lecturer |
| 2000 |
State Fair Community College Sedalia Mo.
University of Miami Florida
Clemson University South Carolina
Portland State University Portland Oregon
Hollywood Art and Culture Center Hollywood Florida |
| 1999 |
Western Sydney University, Sydney Australia |
| 1998 |
Penland School, North Carolina Missouri Fine Arts Academy,
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield |
| 1997 |
Missouri Fine Arts Academy Southwest Missouri State
University Springfield Missouri
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
University of Oregon, Eugene
Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon.
Portland State University, Portland Oregon |
| 1996 |
University of Hawaii Hilo University of Hawaii, Manoa
|
| 1995 |
Bradley University, Peoria Ill.
Brighton University, England
Loughbrough University, Middlesex, England
Camberwell University, London,
Heron School of Art, Indianapolis
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Association of Visual Artists, Chattanooga, Tenn. |
| 1994 |
Penland School, North Carolina
Stephen F. Austin College, Nacgadoces, Texas
University of Arizona, Tucson |
| 1993 |
Jaegallonian University, Krakow Poland
Academy of Fine Arts Krakow Poland
North Harris college Houston Rice University, Houston
Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta Canada
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada |
| 1992 |
Penland School, Asheville, North Carolina
University of Colorado, Boulder
University Of Florida, Gainesville
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash.
University of Washington, Seattle |
| 1990 |
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
| 1989 |
Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa
New World School, Miami
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas |
| 1988 |
Penland School, Asheville, North Carolina
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas
University of Dallas, Texas
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia |
| 1987 |
State Fair College, Sedalia, Missouri
Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Detroit Center for Creative Studies Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
| 1986 |
Chicago Art Institute |
| 1981 |
University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| 1980 |
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. |
| Grants |
| 1998 |
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
Missouri
Juvenile Justice System Grant, Archiving Prospecting Territory, through
Accessible Arts Inc.
Kansas State Arts Commission Grant, Archiving Regional Communities,
through Accessible Arts Inc. |
| 1997 |
Catalysis 2 grant for Portrait of Self Mid America
Art Alliance Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
|
| 1995 |
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
|
| 1994 |
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute |
| 1993 |
Alpha Kappa Delta Foundation Grant |
| 1992 |
National Endowment for the Arts-Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Grant |
| 1988-89 |
Melon grants |
| 1983-84 |
Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art faculty grant
Melon grant |
| 1980 |
Yaddo Society, Hand Hollow Fellowship |
| 1974 |
Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
Virginia |
| Representation |
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Leedy-Voulkos
Art Center, 2012 Baltimore St. KCMO. 64108
Printworks Gallery, Ltd., 311 West Superior, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Jan Weiner Gallery, 4800 Liberty, Kansas City, Missouri 64112 |
| Contact |
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E-Mail: hughmerr@hotmail.com |
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